There are parts of this article I agree with, and parts I disagree with, but this part just screaaaaams "I cannot possibly picture that any part of the world is in any way different from the US":
> “Meritocracy!”, I hear you cry. “They pick from the most talented students. The ones that worked the hardest to get into the most elite schools. The black students should have just worked harder”. I guess mummy and daddy paying $20 mil for a new library to get me a seat at an ‘elite’ school is still meritocracy eh?
It also seems like a complete digression from racial justice.
Also, it’s surprising considering the author mentions having aggro with police in London. it’s certainly unfortunate that the Metropolitan police decided to racially profile him. However, statistically, more people die in police custody in the land of the free than in Britain, so this terrible incident doesn’t represent the quality of policing in the UK.
Tertiary education in the U.K. can be expensive (unless you are Scottish), but university admissions are open to everyone without having to donate millions for a library
Then that is a really weird passage. HBCUs are a purely American thing. Legacy admissions are a purely American thing. Paying to get your kids into a university is a purely American thing.
Also, the author uses the American spelling "curb". If they do live in London, they are presumably a migrant from the US.
Oh, interesting. Do you know where they're from? It sounds to me like it must be a place that's very Americanized, for sure.
Edit: Nevermind, I misread the paragraph about London as being just a story about something happening in London, rather than abeing about something that happened to the author in London.
> “Meritocracy!”, I hear you cry. “They pick from the most talented students. The ones that worked the hardest to get into the most elite schools. The black students should have just worked harder”. I guess mummy and daddy paying $20 mil for a new library to get me a seat at an ‘elite’ school is still meritocracy eh?
It also seems like a complete digression from racial justice.